Management decisions for pediatric asthma (in patients younger than 12 years of age) based on extrapolation from available evidence in adolescents and adults (age 12 years and older) is common but rarely appropriate. This article addresses the disparity in response between the two age groups, presents the available pediatric evidence, and highlights the important areas in which further research...

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that is characterized by reversible airway obstruction, airway hyperresponsiveness to stimuli, variable airway resistance and flow rates, and transient increases in lung volume. Classic symptoms include cough, wheezing, dyspnea, and chest tightness [1]. Worldwide, asthma prevalence is increasing, with generally higher prevalence rates in w...

Allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) is the only curative way that can change the immunologic response to allergens and thus can modify the natural progression of allergic diseases. There are some important criteria which contributes significantly on efficacy of AIT, such as the allergen extract used for treatment, the dose and protocol, patient selection in addition to the severity and contro...

Pediatric asthma continues to be a difficult burden for 10% of American children and their parents and interferes with lifestyles and economic impacts on the household, state, and national levels. This study aims to evaluate a pediatric asthma summer camp, Camp Superstuff, in its ability to educate children about asthma knowledge and asthma control. I collected preand post-educational test scor...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of developmental defects of enamel in children with asthma and its relation to specific characteristics of disease such as symptom onset, asthma severity and treatment initiation in pediatric asthma patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Children and adolescents (104 asthma patients and 104 control subjects), 7-14 years of age and residents of...

the aim of this study was to demonstrate that handgrip strength test can discriminate the presence/absence of asthma and between intermittent and moderate persistent asthma in children. 140 children (70 healthy and 70 with asthma) completed the pediatric asthma quality of life questionnaire (paqlq) and performed the handgrip strength test. forty-eight hours later, subjects performed spirometry....

interest in the impact of illness on day to day function is leading investigators to include both disease specific and generic health related quality of life (hr qol) questionnaires in a broad range of clinical studies and to gain a full picture of the impact of asthma on the lives of children with this condition, it is necessary to make direct measurement of health related quality of life. in ...

Past studies have demonstrated an association between maternal depression and poor management of pediatric asthma. Using an instrumental variables strategy to address the endogeneity of depression treatment, I build on this literature to answer the question of whether treating maternal depression leads to an improvement in pediatric asthma management. I show that treatment of mother's depressio...

 Asthma is a chronic inflammatory respiratory disease. Nutritional conditions effects on allergic diseases such as asthma. The aim of this study is to find relation of maternal vitamin E and progression of children asthma. This is a review article searched in data base include Google, PubMed, SID, Irandoc, Scopus and up-to-date. Key words for search include maternal vitamin e, asthma, children ...